Even though Donald J. Trump as a Christian is patently a fraud, although he walks in the ways of the ungodly and is utterly amoral, even depraved, nevertheless the Christian far right is jumping onto Trump’s burning Panzer as it careens crazily towards — we pray — its Untergang.
The other day, the Rev. James Dobson, an especially virulent and wingnutty evangelical pastor and author, declared that he had met with the Donald and found him to be a follower of the Lord:
The presumptive Republican nominee captured a significant number of evangelical voters during the Republican primary, and that may be due to recently accepting “a relationship with Christ,” according to evangelical leader James Dobson.
Trump met with hundreds of evangelical leaders in New York earlier this week, and while some well-known figures — such as Liberty University president, Jerry Falwell Jr. — have endorsed the candidate, others are more hesitant to do so. However, Dobson, a Christian psychologist and founder of the Focus on the Family group, said he knows “the person who led Trump to Christ."
Forget all that palaver. That’s not why the Dobsons and Falwells of America support Trump.
Why do they, then?
Because they understand instinctively that Trump will persecute and punish their enemies. Trump has demonstrated over and over again, before and since the summer of 2015, that he is vicious, vengeful, and eager to punish anyone who is critical of him. Oppose Donald Trump and you are his enemy, period.
The Christian far right doesn’t need assurances that President Donald Trump will enact their agenda to the best of his ability. They know that he will. Once in power, Trump would immediately begin to punish his critics and political opponents, because that’s what he is about. And the worst punishment that most of Trump’s opponents’ could conceive of would be seeing the Christian Right get its way on reproductive rights, LGBT rights, marriage equality, abolishing godless Obamacare, and the general persecution and marginalization of non-Christians.
Trump would be happy to do all that, because what could be worse for his enemies? (apart from a global holocaust)
And the Dobsons and Fobsons know this in their guts and “reckon it unto him as righteousness.”
The end.